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<td>Re: Copywrite creative commons 4.0 request</td>
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<td>Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:48:17 +0100</td>
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<td>Anita Graser <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:anita@qgis.org"><anita@qgis.org></a></td>
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<p>Dear Samantha,</p>
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We have recently been contacted by several authors of papers
submitted to PLOS one, requesting an authorization for a special
licence for their mapping works created with QGIS. We are sure
there is a misunderstanding here: QGIS is free and open source
software, released under GPLv2 licence. Therefore, all the code
linking to it must have the same licence, or a compatible one.
Works created with it, however, can have any licence the authors
decide to assign, see</p>
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href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2018-February/005970.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2018-February/005970.html</a></p>
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href="https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/faq/index.html#i-created-a-map-with-qgis-do-i-have-to-mention-qgis"
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<p>I hope this clarifies the issue. If not, please contact us so
we can jointly solve this issue.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05.11.2021 16:18, 'Samantha
Richardson' via public psc group wrote:<br>
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I created using QGIS software under the Creative Commons
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allows unrestricted use and distribution, even
commercially, by third parties. Please reply and provide
explicit written permission to publish the image of the
map under a CC BY license.</span><br>
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the completed form. Please let me know if you require
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